Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 27, No. 3. Whole No. 148, March 1956

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A red-carpet, ticker-tape, snowstorm-of-confetti welcome — a 17-gun salute complete with ruffles, flourishes, and appropriate music — to Sir Henry Merrivale (H.M.) and his triumphant return to the pages of EQMM — welcome home!

Yes, a thunderous hip, hip to the irascible, outrageous Old Man, to the bellowin’, glarin’, burn-me, Lord love-a-duck Old Maestro in all his gumshoe glory... and to the author’s famous specialty, but this time in spades — not one locked room but two in the same story!

Here is Carter Dickson s (John Dickson Carr’s) newest novelette — a tale of terror set against the “commonplaces” of London and Hampton Court Palace... and do not, we implore you, beware of the love story: it is — in the classic Dickson-Carr technique — a fully integrated and dovetailed part of the tale.

So again — welcome back to that growlin’, roarin’ old sinner, all sixteen-stone of him — the great H.M., created by one of the genuine Old Pros and New Masters of “the grandest game in the world.”

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